germ

Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that can be caused by many different germs, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

He would maintain, decade after decade, that style “is nothing less than the writer’s habits of mind—it is not a kind of paint applied afterwards, but the very germ of the thing.”

The latest and most dramatic example is “Evil Unbound,” a big-budget film about an infamous unit of the Japanese Imperial Army that conducted germ warfare and chemical experiments on live humans.

School and nursery can be like a petri dish with lots of viruses circulating and they may well bring these germs home with them.

It helps avoid the potential problem of cross contamination and germs from double-dippers and just in general everyone taking from the same plates.